Imagine that a resourceful and adaptable framework for self-learning which knowledge is provided by the real-time experience of each of us, all over the world, would have been built. For many people it may sounds like utopia.

The role would be to initiate a smart, collective and collaborative process of investigation that would be an exchange between all individuals, rather than simple speeches or a mere transmission of knowledge. We would be in a different approach of education. The sum of knowledge acquired from day-to-day experiences anywhere in the planet would immediately be modelled thanks to algorithms and would be available to all the people.

So your own experience would serve the collective. People would immediately implement this knowledge within the society to rewrite the existing socio-economic and behavioural models and meet the various local issues. The system would also analyse all the consequences of interaction of people as well as the actions performed. Thus, it would be able to establish predictive scenarios based on the actions performed in real time.

So, this would be a teaching method and content to provide. This teaching would be accessible to everybody, at any age, in any country and would have pretensions to a smart and ethical management of world affairs as well as better relations between individuals.

It would be a powerful process of analysing, modelling and sharing the collective experience in order to raise awareness and motivate any people. It would be a powerful process of bringing back dignity to every individual of the world so as to transform him in agent for positive change.

Everyone would aspire to play a positive role in society. Your behaviour would finally help changing the world. These actions would be within the reach of any individual on the planet regardless of his socio-cultural environment, education background and gender. This would be a Big Ethical Smart Data dedicated to education through experimentation.

That is the purpose of the ambitious program EL4DEV; a smart process of positive transformation of society by the design and the implementation of this new kind of education.

What would happen if we discover that our knowledge of life as a whole was limited, even though in many cases it is not correct? How much noticing it would impact us? What about happen to our societies and all our behaviors whose foundations are based only on a set of implicit agreements without values?
The true human progress can only be achieved through knowledge and the massive and unconditional sharing of it. However, the real knowledge to be acquired is inexorably through experimentation because no speech can give certainty. Experimentation is the only source of certainty.
Our real challenge, the one of humanity in its entirety, is to realize that we require the unconditional pursuit of this knowledge to evolve as it should really be. It is about evolving in the field of mind and heart and not in that of material comfort.
First, humanity will have to reconsider everything it thinks to know and all it thinks to have acquired. Then it will have to constantly explore the range of possibilities in a continuous search for truth, harmony and peace. It will have to go beyond its beliefs. Finally, it will have to experiment and learn from all its experiences.
Everyone will unconditionally and easily have to tap into this vast collective experiment (the vast field of humanity’s true knowledge) and be enriched by the contributions of others, all others.
Here is the program of the new school of the XXI century, a school open to all. This is a school where the only source of knowledge is the individual and collective experimentation.
Welcome to the vast EL4DEV enforcement mechanism and to its showcases, the experimental, creative and radiant cities « Le Papillon Source ».
Welcome to this powerful generator of consciousness, love and beauty to begin the foundation of a new humanity based on ethics, responsibility and collective action. It is time to come together and act. Welcome to all the players of positive change.

«Le papillon source » will be an unequalled amusement park entirely built on the proportions of the golden section. It will be self-managed, powered by free energy and built with quality materials in total respect for nature.
It will be based on the theme of the ideal city and the Golden Age as spread by great utopian philosophers (« The state-city » and « Atlantis » of Plato, « Utopia » by Thomas More, « The city of the sun » by Tommaso Campanella, « The new Atlantis » of Francis Bacon, but also the city of « Camelot », ruled by king Arthur, the Inca cities of gold, etc.).

« Le papillon source » will be held on the following themes:
– The experience of knowledge sharing
– The experience of ressources sharing
– The experience of creativity
– The experience of interdependence
– The experience of collective intelligence

Through specific installations, visitors will experiment by themselves.

Wonder:
Through exciting and magical attractions where wonder and imagination will be there bringing everyone to be aware of its impact and its connection to everything.

Scientists and interactive museums:
This will be through the practice of many fun and highly attractive tests. In particular, there will be explanations, assumptions, 3D projections, immersion spaces and practical workshops.

The benefits of re-centering and energy:
The atmosphere of this visionary and utopian city will take you into a mind and body soothing energy. Sports and relaxation will be provisions as well as access to treatments (herbal medicine, acupuncture, aromatherapy, massage and many more).

Bio-restaurants and healthy eating:
Diversity of menus whose biologic ingredients will come from own cultures of the city.

Permaculture and gardens:
It will be about initiations, tours and funny activities around biologic farming and healthy food.

And many other topics that still will not be revealed here…

More than a tourist centre, « le papillon source » will be a place dedicated to:

– Multidisciplinary research on topics related to humanity, ethics, philosophy, science, energy and earth management, etc. It will concentrate a large number of researchers, inventors and visionary people currently isolated, with no support and with great potentials that are solely guided by the real good of humanity

– Business tourism and large projects initiations for meetings, fairs, exhibitions and summits where will mingle subtlety and intelligence of the heart in order to ethically and sustainably manage world affairs

The ways of knowledge inexorably pass through personal experimentation. « Le Papillon Source » will be a place of wonder, fun and challenge which aims to enable us to explore the realm of the possible.

(Eng) We have all the means to co-build a better world by gathering, knowledge sharing, the use of collective intelligence and especially the heart. Negative emotions are harmful because they impact our ability to act in a rational and just manner. Conversely positive emotions are a powerful engine and fuel – What is missing? A FRAMEWORK, an IMPLEMENTATION MECHANISM, a PROCESS, PLACES? Do not worry it is in progress. So, what are we waiting for? We are the sole masters of our collective destiny. http://www.el4dev.com/https://www.facebook.com/el4dev

Creating an outsized edible forest garden at the heart of a plot of rainforest in the Congo Basin (South West Cameroon, Central Africa) – Without deforestation – It is about significantly increasing the current biodiversity of this forest to offer the world an alternative use of forest ecosystems and stop their destruction.
The pre-existing and highly rich biodiversity will help obtain a greatly productive and very fast functional forest garden.
So, this forest will be transformed into a spokes forest and a food bank forest (orchard coupled with a botanical conservatory).http://www.el4dev.com/

An experimental project to intelligently use the untapped potential of our forests – A new model of management and a concrete application solution to food self-sufficiency in the world – The creation of a self-feeder garden in the heart of the forest in the Congo Basin (Central Africa) – an ecological pilot project of a new dimension – Coming soon

We all recognize that our democracies find it difficult to resist the automation of technological civilizations as well as industrial and consumer societies. Ultimately, within these, we finally are being manipulated so much more subtle and refined than we were by the methods used in post-totalitarian societies.

We do not draw benefit because we also are victims of the same automation and are often unable to avoid falling into artifice or exceed our concerns about our personal survival to become responsible individuals who truly contribute to the creation of a sustainable and peaceful world – the creation of the collective destiny.

Our world is fully made up of systems, living or non-living, nested and in interaction. The society and the economy are two major systems which control is ensured by the use of cybernetics (the science of systems control). By definition, a balanced cybernetic system has the property of self-regulation. A trend in one way automatically creates the conditions for the reverse trend. Such systems demonstrate high stability in time. However, we note that all humanity has a general inability to control the situation. In sum, our systems are not balanced. Currently we misuse of cybernetics.

It is for this reason that modern society seems to lose more and more the spirit of community, natural empathy, affection between human beings and respect for the environment. It is now necessary to find a way to overcome all these dangers coming from individualism.

We should stop seeing globalization as a negative factor leading to the disappearance of the primacy of states and the domination of the markets. We all know that the time of states’ domination was marked by terrible wars and totalitarianism. Regarding the domination of markets, it is simply the consequence of individualization too implanted in our societies. Globalization simply has the face that we attribute to it by our collective actions.

However, increasingly, people are calling for a strengthening of the global capacity to regulate markets and international relations. Today, the international relations are always supposed to relate to the interests of certain states rather than ethical standards and positive and rational exchanges. So people are claiming another globalization – an alternative globalization – a different one – globalization with a human face.

The concept of global governance system must not refer to a world state, as some people imagine or fear, but at a orderly system (balanced cybernetic system) in which the states are increasingly guided by international ethical rules. These rules should not only be based on an agreement between states but also on a massive public support generated by a global civil society.

It is therefore necessary to establish a regulation. But are international regulations possible without an international state? Well, yes; it would be based on a new kind of social agreement with its system of values. This social agreement and its system of values would be based on a vision of the notions of values and reason printed in the human consciousness. This concept of social agreement would be based on the consent of individuals and would commit them.

A local civil society would be a participatory process, located on territory, through which individuals are in phase with each other and with the centers of economic and political authorities (which include institutions and companies). It would be a self-organizing activity designed for specific purposes related to progressive social and human values.

By civil society, we always understand autonomy and self-organization. But this is not to forget communication and transparency, two major components of a balanced cybernetic system. In the ideal territorial civil society, we logically see a slight withdrawal of the state in his usual roles and above all a creation of civic engagement islands working in symbiosis with the state (act and move in the same direction). These perfectly organized islands are generated by local dynamics of progress. The challenge is to create an ethics-based community, that is to say, a community based on morality, sharing and respect. All societies of the world (Western and non-Western societies) largely have the potential to experience something similar. For what reason? Simply because all cultures have traditions of human dignity, tolerance, use of reason and public deliberation.

If the territorial civil society is related to the territory, the global civil society is related to the concept of positive interdependence. Thus, a global civil society can without any problem, and should necessarily exist in the absence of an alias world state or a super institution with great power. The risk of misuse of this power is too big. However, we should be able to understand this interdependence and, as well, should be able to make a beneficial use of it. The state of our societies shows us that this is not the case yet.

In addition, no movement can reflect the aspirations of people around the world. This is why many say that the idea of a global civil society is a mistake because it is to represent a world opinion and substitute the functioning of representative democracy at national level.

Also, how global civil society can convince states to adopt a multilateral alternative framework to address critical issues? Well, there is simply no alternative but to try to establish a set of global rules based on consent and ethics.

The only way to achieve the consent of the mass (macro level) is to focus only on the micro level – by a real-time experiment made by the stakeholders in each territory of the world.

The multiple civic implications at the territorial level (also called singular territorial dynamics) fit together like a giant puzzle with an ingenious implementation mechanism using a powerful catalyst (Big Smart Data of EL4DEVconcept) and a multidisciplinary activity of conceptualization. The whole will form a highly scalable and adaptable modular structure. Then, from this, the real global civil society will be born – in its prototype form. It will be born in a way that no one expects.

The rules of exchanges and global management of world affairs would ultimately be defined within the social agreement, in a highly participatory way and by the mass consent. It’s the only solution to form this global civil society so imagined and described as an utopia. In short, the social agreement will only be made by continually increasing civic involvement of stakeholders in each country around the world. The connection between the territories will be possible by the similarities encountered in civil implications. These similarities experienced by different peoples will be the foundations of the social agreement. The result of the whole is greater than the sum of all components set (a principle of cybernetics).

The social agreement will never be imposed on people; neither its values. It will exist thanks to the deep and shared desire of a heterogeneous international population looking to evolve into a sustainable lifestyle more respectful of people and the environment. It will be born from a participatory conceptualisation by all stakeholders of the world. It will be related to the concept of positive interdependence and new humanism. The civil society will be evolving from its primary form (the prototype form) to several increasingly sophisticate forms but whose fundamentals remain the same. The engines of this positive evolution are conductive education, thought and subtlety of mind and the intelligence of the heart.

Everybody knows that an amazing amount of data is continuously collected since our beginning of the digital age. Now the question is how we can harness all this information to help meet the challenges facing our societies in this century, while particularly addressing concerns about the ethical issues this raises. Across the globe companies, organizations and institution are hardly competing to exploit the potential of this Big Data. Everywhere, companies are developing methods for mining and modeling these increasing amounts of data becoming available about people.

If you watch or listen to what is happening around you, you will understand that people are too much excited about the potential of big data because of the prospect of working on large amounts of previously unreachable user data in any field, mainly for business purpose and sometimes for much more enigmatic reasons.

What about education benefits? Big Data in education is a more and more hot topic. People are looking its potential for reform, others are concerned about privacy, and some don’t see why spending money for it. For sure, Big Data is deeply revolutionising education. Why? Just because we all know that education is more and more occurring online or in educational software, resulting in an explosion of data that can be used to improve educational effectiveness. So, Big Data should really help to deliver an education system that enables to realise the full potential of people.

Some people say Big Data can unlock the door to a more personalised learning experience which will motivate young people to study and better equip them for life beyond the classroom. With Big Data, teachers can analyse students and their work patterns in order to pinpoint where teaching can be personalized and optimized. Big Data can capture usage data and social signals in order to develop user profiles and enable teachers to deliver personalised learning. So, Big Data will drive to data-driven classrooms, the concept of digitally collecting and analyzing students’ work, tracking and reporting performance.

But people also say this could help to ensure countries have workforces with the skills required to succeed in today’s highly competitive globalised economy. But why only in order to compete economically? Why this huge opportunity would it only be for schools? Why only for young people? This big data could it not be exploited to continuously train individuals able to better understand their environment and the human – individuals who can play a positive role in society? We must go beyond the simple acquisition of knowledge.

In our lives today, algorithms are analyzing our behaviour (both on and offline and all the time). They shape what we do in the moment, and they often steer us toward what we do next. But where is the ethics in that?

A Big Data dedicated to education would have problems to overcome with the classic approach people have.

This requires concerted action by all those involved (from policy-makers and educators, to researchers, students and the private sector) working together closely to find effective solutions to unlock such enormous potential and work on ethical issues. Collaboration, communication and transparency are essential between all stakeholders.

But Big Data is too big to analyse using conventional techniques or using relational database management. Most current definitions of Big Data emphasise volume, velocity (real-time information), and variety. Data of this kind requires many specialists processing platforms to analyze it.

It seems that, no country in the world will be able to capitalise fully on this potential without taking action to address a wide range of issues. Skills must be acquired to harness the power of big data; technologies and infrastructure developed to collect, store, share and analyse it; and policies agreed to address concerns surrounding privacy and security, and the potentially dehumanising impact of big data on education. Both the legal and ethical questions posed by the use of big data are still not answered.

The method and objectives of EL4DEV are different. In this sense, EL4DEV offers an alternative approach of Big Data.

EL4DEV is a resourceful and adaptable framework for self-learning which knowledge is provided by the real-time experience of each of us, all over the world. For many people it may sounds like utopia. The role of EL4DEV is to initiate an intelligent, collective and collaborative process of investigation that is an exchange between all individuals, rather than simple speeches or a mere transmission of knowledge.

We are in a different approach of education. The sum of knowledge acquired from day-to-day experiences anywhere in the planet is immediately modeled thanks to algorithms and available to all the people. So your own experience serves the collective. People immediately implement this knowledge within the society to rewrite the existing socio-economic and behavioural models and meet the various local issues. The system also analyses all the consequences of interaction of people and the actions performed. Thus, it is able to establish predictive scenarios based on the actions performed in real time.

So, here is the teaching method and content EL4DEV provides. This teaching is accessible to everybody, at any age, in any country and has pretensions to an intelligent and ethical management of world affairs as well as better relations between individuals. EL4DEV is a powerful process of analysing, modelling and sharing the collective experience in order to raise awareness and motivate any people. EL4DEV is a powerful process of bringing back dignity to every individual so as to change him in agent of positive change.

Everyone aspires to play a positive role in society. With EL4DEV, your behaviour can finally help change the world. These actions are within the reach of any individual on the planet regardless of its socio-cultural environment, education background and gender. That is why we talk here of Big Data.

EL4DEV meets the challenges on the possible dehumanisation of education and addresses concerns surrounding privacy of data. Data of this kind do not require other processing platforms to analyze it. This huge opportunity of Big Data is not only for schools and students since EL4DEV is an open learning framework. This big data is aimed to be exploited continuously only to train individuals able to better understand their environment and the human. Here, we talk about ethical Big Data.

EL4DEV is a self-learning process through experimentation and a self-correcting framework rethinking all current socio-economic and behaviour models to incorporate a true spiritual dimension.

Spirituality is concerned with the qualities of the human spirit, love and compassion, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, contentment, a sense of responsibility, a sense of harmony, which bring happiness to both self and others.

From a philosophical point of view, the term spirituality refers to the notion of interiority in opposition to material and artifice. It is increasingly divorced from the concept of religion. This is called a secular spirituality.

Spiritual practice is simply the fact of acting in the interests of others. It is about gradually reorganizing its habits and attitudes so as to less think about one’s own concerns but benefit to others. The sense of connection forms a central feature of spirituality.

Spirituality often focuses on personal experience, solidarity and any relational experimentation. Awareness must be individual and spontaneous to make the changes permanent. Without experience, there can be no sustainability.

Thereby secular spirituality meets the major challenge of our time. We need to reconcile the universality of basic human values, such as respect for others and for oneself, with the wealth of cultural diversity. It is about recognizing the rights attached to the dignity of every human being, regardless of our differences of race, gender, opinion or religion.

The spiritual search is similar to the experience and the experience is similar to scientific research. It gives new meaning to our lives by questioning non-market foundations of the human being caught in its relations with others, with nature, and with its environment. As a mental process of elevation of the spirit, spirituality is a force of resistance to the power of appearances and money, the cult of the ephemeral and superficial, and the immediate dictatorship.

The considerable technical progress, growing exponentially, was not accompanied by a similar progress of the human spirit and humanistic values. The decadence of our materialistic society and the destruction of the environment generated by a financial capitalism linked to the dictatorship of money lead us right into a ravine. The causes of the current economic crisis lie mainly in the emergence of a globalized financial capitalism, unregulated and obsessed with short-term profit and self-centeredness. The revival of spirituality is the only way that can allow humanity to escape a feared or announced collapse of our society.

We can prevent the financial, economic and social crises occur by valuing Ethics and individual responsibility – by increasing the awareness of belonging to an interconnected and interdependent world.

The popular idea that science, economics, governance (companies, organizations, institutions and states) and spirituality are incompatible no longer stands. However, it was previously the case when religion had a monopoly on spirituality. Spirituality is a kind of science of interiority that refocuses on the essentials. Therefore it becomes natural to link all of these disciplines and spirituality.

One of the challenges of EL4DEV is to initiate, stimulate and maintain an economy oriented toward the spiritual. It provides adequate individual behavioural responses in an economic, sociological and ecological crisis. It is about moving towards a balance of our economies. This goes along with the personal development of individuals living in interdependence (with other individuals and surrounding nature). We can call this the evolution of consciousness or spiritual growth.

The spiritual economy includes other constraints that the only research of maximizing his income and his personal pleasure.

As many know, the economy is already running; however, it is still very little considered; it is too much low. We need to design, plan and manage the transition. To achieve this transition one must have a goal. The objective is the shared desire of most people in the world to reverse the current global trend. Everyone is looking for solutions. These solutions are yet in our inner life, our specificity of men and women, i.e. in spirituality to be found there.

Some know. Secular spirituality is very strongly linked to moral philosophy. This moral philosophy is a key component of the processes and solutions developed by the EL4DEV program. Philosophy is the love of wisdom. This is self-knowledge in our interdependence with other human beings, but also with nature and our environment. Philosophical wisdom is a fundamental research approach on the essence of the human spirit and meaning of the universe. It concludes a way of being and acting in everyday life. The love of wisdom is necessarily the love the other, the love of nature. He invites us to open our common humanity.

This philosophy open on life and one’s own behaviour change to reflect the sacredness of every human being strongly brings us closer to spirituality. We are social beings and that is why the need for spirituality is defined as a founding value of the human being.